tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663680578112260744.post4243572738193902516..comments2024-03-13T08:18:08.922+10:30Comments on Catdownunder: "He wants to drop Chinesecatdownunderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189081688973141295noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663680578112260744.post-56673701525347275662011-12-12T19:30:13.640+10:302011-12-12T19:30:13.640+10:30No Asian language should be compulsory. This is al...No Asian language should be compulsory. This is all about government kowtowing to government. The real world uses English to do business.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663680578112260744.post-71945773590181020942011-12-12T19:28:56.283+10:302011-12-12T19:28:56.283+10:30You are right of course Jean but that is the way i...You are right of course Jean but that is the way it gets taught here - and there is little or no chance of going to China and using it.<br />Widdershins - compulsory in his school, not in all schools. All the same there is the suggestion that Chinese etc should take precedence over things like French and if a language became compulsory (something else they would like) then yes, an Asian language would be the one which would be compulsory.catdownunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06959328192182156574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663680578112260744.post-39576317627016524162011-12-12T19:00:58.531+10:302011-12-12T19:00:58.531+10:30It's COMPULSORY there now? WTF !!! ... when di...It's COMPULSORY there now? WTF !!! ... when did that happen?widdershinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04205462833259334647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663680578112260744.post-42775930854720620382011-12-12T18:59:46.458+10:302011-12-12T18:59:46.458+10:30"After ten years . . he could not hold a con..."After ten years . . he could not hold a conversation with the parents of his best friend"<br />To me that says he was not really learning the language. What he has learned of it will be little or no use in future years.<br />I had had five and a half years of learning French when I went on an exchange visit to a family who spoke no English. After two weeks I was dreaming in French! Nearly fifty years on I can still hold a simple conversation or write a letter to a French company, without any practice in between. That is usefully learning a language. I hope the lad gets his wish.jeanfromcornwallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10062674591619616456noreply@blogger.com